Karla Flores was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor. A misplaced MRI found a second, nearly inoperable, tumor on her spine.

Doctors can use MRI to examine a person’s lower spine, lumbar region, and surrounding tissues. MRI of the spine can show spinal alignment, lumbar disk herniation, inflammation, and more.

Metastatic spinal tumors can grow quickly and cause fractures and spinal cord compression, so early diagnosis and treatment are important. Fred Hutch’s Brain and Spine Metastases Clinic provides rapid ...

Maryland surgeons perform groundbreaking transorbital surgery to remove spinal tumors through a patient's eye socket, saving a young woman with rare chordoma cancer.

An MRI can detect cancer in many places in the body, but it does have some limitations. Learn the advantages and disadvantages of this test.

A surgical team at the University of Maryland Medical Center extracted the tumors, which had wrapped around the spinal cord, through the patient’s eye socket.

Because an MRI is able to see soft tissue, it can create detailed images of tumor growth. However, MRIs can't detect all cancers.

Noncancerous brain tumors don't spread, but they can grow and cause symptoms. Learn about the different types of brain tumors and what causes them.

Spinal tumors can give rise to many different symptoms depending on the size and location of the tumor. Typically, symptoms progressively arise and worsen as the tumor grows, causing compression of ...

Cole Houska, Glyndon, Minnesota, is an energetic 3-year-old boy who loves playing with dinosaurs and his two older brothers. Recently his life changed when an MRI showed multiple brain and spinal ...

"These types of tumors are probably less than 10% of tumors we see in the neurosurgery field and the degree to which her tumor had grown, I'd say less than 1% of tumors get to this size," said ...

Doctors use MRI scans to see disease or injury affecting internal organs and soft tissues like the brain, spinal cord, heart, liver, kidneys, muscles, and tendons. Patients often wonder if MRI is ...